Scientists say they’ll go ahead anyway. Lawmakers, seeking to rein in the scientific appetite for human experimentation, are attempting to ban human cloning. On July 31, the House approved a bill, 265 ...

AFTER A FAILED EFFORT to ban human cloning in 1998, Congress has taken up the issue once again. There have been hearings in both the House and the Senate, testimony from fertility doctors and cult ...

(CNN) -- A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Scientists need strong microscopes to see these precursors to life, and to take ...

The British parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the two most senior Roman ...

Reproductive Cloning is the process of making a full living copy of an organism. Reproductive cloning of animals transplants nuclei from body cells into eggs that have had their nucleus removed. That ...

We think of science as a clean and logical place where, with the right skills and instruments, you can see the world in a grain of sand. So what happens when you cross science with a circus full of ...

The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell ...

Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday they had succeeded in creating the world's first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but ...